Salmon Alps feeling...like MX Browns?

[casualdehid]

hi there
I got an M0118 and theese Salmon switches are only barely tactile, rather close to being linear, close to MX Blue or dare I say, browns. I've asked the same on the desktority, and Deskthority discord, but I want to ask you guys too what are your oppinion on the thing. I know that for a fact that I overtactilized my AEK II. Theese are Waaay more tactile even than my early pine white alps, wich click leaves are untouched by me, and are quite tactile. My question is: how tactile should it feel compared to those early white alps?

[Riverman]

I've never thought that any of the tactile Alps switches used in Apple keyboards felt particularly tactile, and I've owned a few since new, back in the late '80s and early 90s.  For quite a while, I honestly thought they were linear.

[chyros]

It's not the magnitude that's the point of Alps tactility. Salmon and orange Alps aren't super tactile or anything. It's the TYPE of tactility that matters here. As in, it's ACTUAL tactility rather than just a shudder in the force curve.

[casualdehid]

It's not the magnitude that's the point of Alps tactility. Salmon and orange Alps aren't super tactile or anything. It's the TYPE of tactility that matters here. As in, it's ACTUAL tactility rather than just a shudder in the force curve.

Yes it feels definietly more drawn out and it makes the typing drop to the bottom of the key, and is not trying to stop me from bottoming out due to resuming to a linear curve. The more I use them the more I like theese switches. And the sound the M0118 case brings out is just absolutely wonderful. Yes it feels definietly more drawn out and it makes me bottom out, instread of actively trying to stop me from bottoming out due to resuming to a linear curve, thus punishing bottoming out. The more I use them the more I like theese switches. And the sound the M0118 case brings out is just absolutely wonderful.

[Rob27shred]

It's not the magnitude that's the point of Alps tactility. Salmon and orange Alps aren't super tactile or anything. It's the TYPE of tactility that matters here. As in, it's ACTUAL tactility rather than just a shudder in the force curve.

^^^^^ This 100%

[Riverman]

The M0118 was always one of my favorites.  It really does have a great sound to it, although my wife hates how loud it is.  It only gets pulled out when I need a keyboard for my old Macintosh SE/30, which probably hasn't been turned on in a few years now.

[casualdehid]

The M0118 was always one of my favorites.  It really does have a great sound to it, although my wife hates how loud it is.  It only gets pulled out when I need a keyboard for my old Macintosh SE/30, which probably hasn't been turned on in a few years now.

If you haven't done so, make sure to take off the battery from the thing, and replace the caps, or say good bye to your mainboard xD

[Crabby]

To me I felt complicated white alps had less of an apparent bump than the tactile alps boards I've tried. But to me that's because the quality of the tactility is so clean from white alps that it just blows any tactile switch out of the water.

However I wouldn't go as far as to say that tactile alps are like MX browns. The tactility is legit while browns feel like scratchy reds.